[free-sklyarov] The OSCON sleeps on ...

[Kevin]

This brings up an (almost) entirely off-topic question.  Are there any Free
or free English translations of Hagakure available online?


Free Dmitry you dumb son-of-a-bitch.
- Joe Pesci, Lethal Weapon 2


 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Klepht" <klepht at eleutheria.org>
To: <free-sklyarov at zork.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [free-sklyarov] The OSCON sleeps on ...


> >>>>> "K" == Klepht  <klepht at eleutheria.org> writes:
> 
>     K> An announcement sent out tonight for, say, a Thursday lunch
>     K> event would be ambitious but not unreasonable.
> 
>         "If you keep your spirit correct from morning to night,
>         accustomed to the idea of death and resolved on death, and
>         consider yourself as a dead body, thus becoming one with the
>         Way of the warrior, you can pass through life with no
>         possibility of failure and perform your office properly."
> 
>                                            -- "Hakagure"
>                                               (Also, "Ghost Dog" B-)
> 
> I think I've already mentioned my ideas about the Way of the Event
> Samurai, but I think I'll say them again. First and foremost you have
> to come to terms with having your event fail miserably.
> 
> With standing alone, in your underwear, in the rain, crying.
> 
> With having that very attractive MOTS (or MOSS, your call), who you've
> been secretly pining over for years, walk by you in your big dumb
> topical sandwich board or silly hat and give you a look that says
> you're absolutely, positively NEVER going to be an attractive person
> in any sense of the word.
> 
> With having no one around to take your poorly-made flyers or even look
> at your soggy rain-soaked cardboard sign.
> 
> With having riot troops with blue visored helmets and clear plastic
> shields come marching down the street at you, despite all the proper
> permits and exemplary behavior, throwing big heavy tear gas cannisters
> clonking into your head, zapping you with cattle prods and tasers,
> dragging you behind the paddy wagon like a rag doll, and then dropping
> you into some oubliette from which you will never return.
> 
> Only when you have faced complete and total event failure will you be
> able to make event success happen with confidence.
> 
> You can use that confidence to send out _announcements_, and not
> _feelers_ like, "Is anyone interested..." or "Will anyone
> come...". Because you don't care if anyone will come. Rather, "This
> event will happen here, at this time, and we will do X, Y and Z."
> 
> The only thing I know about events is this: people ignore questions
> and respond to announcements. "Putting out feelers" must be done in
> private and only to avoid holding an event at some catastrophic time
> or place. Once you're even vaguely confident, you should announce,
> announce, announce.
> 
> This is the Way of the Event Samurai.
> 
> ~Klepht
> 
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> http://www.eleutheria.org/
> 
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